Reading Time: 2 minutes Head in the clouds Cloud computing is the delivery of computing services over the internet, commonly referred to as “the cloud.” These services include servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence. The benefits of cloud computing include increased speed of innovation, flexible resource allocation, and economies of scale. Cloud computing allows businesses to pay…
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Azure 101: A Guide
Reading Time: < 1 minutes The Azure 101 guide aims to help guide those new to cloud and provide a platform to help experience what it is and what is has to offer. This guide will take a look at Microsoft Azure through a developer’s lens, but also explore and learn ways to manage your own Azure cloud environment. Every…
Some Lessons Learned with Azure Hybrid Connections
Reading Time: 3 minutes Hybrid Connections you say? Here’s some background… Recently I’ve been working with a client to deploy an Azure Hybrid Connection to create a tunnel between an Azure Function App and some on-premises devices. I would like to discuss some lessons from this experience to hopefully help anyone who gets stuck. A little bit about Hybrid…
Azure Function App: How to Build a Weather API
Reading Time: 6 minutes Overview In my previous Function App article (How to Build a REST API with Azure Function Apps) I talked about how Microsoft provides sample code for building a Azure Function HTTP Trigger when you create a Function App in Visual Studio Code. With the provided code you can then go ahead and modify it to…
Unpacking and Demystifying Azure Function Apps: An Overview
Reading Time: 4 minutes What is an Azure Function? Azure Function Apps are Azure cloud-based serverless event-driven applications. Generally Azure Functions are stateless, meaning that each trigger or run of the Function App has no context or reference to previous runs. This isn’t a hard rule however, as there is an extension for something called Durable Functions, which allow…